DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Results: Dark: Ryan Wilson defeated Funaki with a pumphandle slam. Jamie Noble defeated "Zakudo" (no one around me heard his name) by doing a suplerplex rolled into his sleeper submission. SmackDown: Ken Kennedy defeated Batista via count-out Vito defeated Simon Dean with his under the dress submission. Sylvan Grenier defeated Tatanka with the TKO Michelle McCool defeated Jillian Hall with her feet on the ropes for leverage. I believe at this point, there was a big celebration for King Booker's title win with balloons, a carriage to the ring, and the like. Rey interupted by doing a jumping Senton onto Booker's throne. Chavo said he owes no one any answers, but will, at a later date, teach Rey what being a Guerrero really means. Finlay and Regal discuss their past battles in WCW, with Regal saying he thought that was all in the past. He blames the "troll" for his loss at the Bash, but Finlay corrects him to say it was a leprechaun. Finlay defeated William Regal to retain the US title when Little Bastard gave William a low blow. Finlay rolled him up and used the tights. JT won the Diva Search "Musical Chairs". Sylvester Terkay (with his manager Elijah Burke) defeated Matt Hardy by what appeared to be a variant of the hammerlock (or key lock) for the submission. King Booker defeated Rey Mysterio to retain the World Title. Chavo Guerrero interfered to help Booker retain. --- Notes: Notes: Tony Chimmel was the ring announcer. WrestleMania 22 highlight package (from the end of the PPV) was shown before the show. Ryan Wilson vs Funaki was pretty short and uninteresting. Wilson was dressed in a plaid shirt and kahkis (I think - some sort of street clothes pants). The maksed Japanese character whose name no one seemed to catch came out to old WWE standby for generic asan wrestlers - the Orient Express theme. He seemed pretty good and the crowd eventually got into him. When Noble was lying on the 2nd rope, the masked wrestler leaped from the floor to dropkick Noble in the head, landing on the ring apron as well. While the crowd (by the way, the crowd's entire lower bowl was sold out and about half to 1/4 of the upper deck was as well) was more behind Batista, there were a good share of people cheering on Kennedy. Kennedy did get to do his intro without being interupted. There was a Simon Dean promo stating Vito was playing mind games, and there was an implication that Simon Dean was gay and wanted Vito to lift his dress to cose him the match. He stopped thinking about that and regained his train of thought. At one point during the match Vito was held in a suplex, causing his dress to fall and "delight" the fans. Miz was shown waiting outside of Rey Mysterio's locker room. I believe they did a quick interview where Rey complained about Chavo. Tatanka vs. Grenier was about as good as you'd think it would be, although Tatanka did get a pop coming out and fans would get into the "rally" when a chinlock was applied. Grenier ave Tatanka a low blow when the ref was taking the tomohawk away from Sylvan, then the TKO. Michelle McCool vs Jillian was very short and not too bad (and very pleasant to watch live). The odd thing here was Kristal and Ashley were standing on the apron as if it was a tag match, even though Tony said it was one on one. They eventually went onto the floor. Match was fairly short. William Regal did a promo which I think may have been arena only (I assume this because he said "Fit" Finlay and they did a promo together after this) talking about their days in WCW. I forget how it ended, but the intent was to make Regal out to be the heel so fans would know which guy they were SUPPOSED to boo. A commercial for 24/7 Aired to the song "Right Now". It was pretty good. Finlay vs Regal was good and wasn't too focused on Little Basyard until the end. The crowd was quite silent at first, not knowing what to make of it. Now, I don't want to take credit for anything, but when Finlay was in a hold by Regal, my friend and I tried a rally. People may have been doing the same in other sections too, I don't know. Anyway, this did led to the arena doing a rally, then doing a "Let's go Finlay!" chant, which was odd after all the silence. Finlay gave LB a high-five on the way out (he was still under the ring). Match was about 7 minutes. The Diva Search is a lot more bareable to watch live, I'll give it that much. The time stamps on my camera have this segment being under 7 minutes, an improvement over some of the much longer ones of the past. Whichever chick lost to JT at the end almost swung the last chair at her, but Miz broke it up. Terkay vs Hardy was fairly boring and mostly unimpressive. Little response except for "Hardy" chants and faint "We Want Jeff" chants. King Booker vs Rey was maybe about 9 minutes and a good match. People tried to chant "Chavo" after people were done chanting Eddie. ECW Notes: Fairly boring show. Ariel does a nice thing on the ropes when she enters that I don't believe was on TV as right after it, a CM Punk promo aired. Post show, while almost everyone was exiting (and ended up standing at the top of stairways), Undertaker and Kane defeated BIg Show and Kahli with a double chokeslam on Khali. Khali did nothing except leave mid-way through the match when Big Show tried to tag. Boy, the crew works REALLY hard to get that ECW ring set up by 10 pm. Even Charlies Robinson and Tony Chimmel bust their ass getting things ready. A nice thing to see on the way home was someone complaining about the new ECW, saying Vince is just pissing on it and Heyman sucks for allowing it. He was doing this while wearing a brand new WWE-version Sandman shirt. There were also some girls near the arena steps handing out flyers for TNA Bound for Glory. We heard they were sent there by PTW's Dave Martin. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Amazing Rando 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 SYLVAN VS. GRENIER... THE AMBASSADOR EXPLODES~! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Exslade ZX 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Sylvester Terkay (with his manager Elijah Burke) defeated Matt Hardy by what appeared to be a variant of the hammerlock (or key lock) for the submission. Wow...sucks to be Matt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
slimm44 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 If you replace the prison match with the diva search, Dean and Grenier's matches, this is Sunday night's show Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Open the Muggy Gate 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Kinda surprised they have a former OVW champion be a manager for Terkay. I'm not gonna condem it yet. I'll just wait and see how this plays out Friday. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob_barron 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Zakudo was Billy Kidman. Did Noble powerbomb him at all? Was Turkay good? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Edited for notes. Some bastard beat me to Meltzer. Damn me and my longwinded notes. Oh well, as long as I still see my name in the "Special Thanks" section next week in the Observer / tomorrow in the Wednesday news udpate, that's all my ego needs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 "Zakudo was Billy Kidman. Did Noble powerbomb him at all? Was Turkay good?" Someone in my section thought that (Kidman) and I kind of agreed. Terkay sucked. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Golgo 13 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 What was Terkay's gimmick? I thought I read something about him coming in as a Brody clone, or is he just MMA guy now? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Terkay came out in a jacker that said "Sylvester Terkay" (as did Burke) and wore black gloves. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bob_barron 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 I bet if you submit more detailed spoilers Meltz will post them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Seeing how undetailed the current one is, I assume so too. A side note, Meltz had gotten into a habit of saying "Thanks to Stephen Gray and several others" when I sent him generla Canadian notes, but the last two things I sent to him about WrestleMania / Windsor, Ontario he has reported uncredited. Maybe I am a secret source now! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DerangedHermit 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Sylvester Terkay should have debuted as Sylvester Turkey and feuded with the Gobbledlygooker and the Red Rooster! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Niggardly King 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 I remember Elijah Burke... some people said that he's basically like Shelton Benjamin... which is pretty damn far from the truth. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
death_by_burrito 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Who is Sylvester Terkay? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Sidenote: It was pretty awesome seeing TWO people use the TKO as their finisher. I actually wouldn't put it past Grenier that it was actually a messed up F5. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
randomguy 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Is Ariel the same chick that was Burchill's wench for a night? Hard to tell what is up with Kennedy and Batista. Kennedy loses to Hardy but then beats Batista twice? (Albeit in a way protecting Batista) I guess with so few workers around they have to make this last a while. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Also awesome: During the SmackDown to ECW conversion, we saw Little Bastard SPRINT from the ring to the back. He's one fast midget. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Niggardly King 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 How was Batista/Kennedy? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Short, not a bad match. I believe the ending was Batista clotheslining the ring post and being counted out while Kennedy barely got back in the ring (I think he kicked Batista back out before he could come back in). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 I took this video off a digital camera, please excuse the poor quality. I also don't know why I chose such uninteresting / unimportant events to record while leaving match finishes to my memory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMREptMcYxs - Noble vs Kidman, apparently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzXwuzzteSQ - Musical chairs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnBVzZue9b4 - Musical chairs - the conclusion! - for fun, as I'm waiting for youtube to process King Booker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uaBt0Jc_bw - King Booker Not sure why there are video jumps, I just chalk it up the fact a digital camera is not a real video camera. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scroby 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 A nice thing to see on the way home was someone complaining about the new ECW, saying Vince is just pissing on it and Heyman sucks for allowing it. He was doing this while wearing a brand new WWE-version Sandman shirt. Heyman has a choice in Vince running ECW? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benn 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 So much for my dreams of a Finlay/Regal vs London/Kendrick feud. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest nokia Report post Posted July 26, 2006 No Paul London or Kendrick on the show? Sound like a bad show... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spaceman Spiff 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 Man, everything before Booker's celebration sounds like ass. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 26, 2006 It was a good show in the sense that wrestling matches outweighed non-wrestling segments (only the King Booker and Diva Search segments) but outside of the main event, the matches were either short or not that great. Nothing outside of Sylvan was dull, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benn 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2006 No Paul London or Kendrick on the show? Sound like a bad show... London and Kendrick have barely been on tv since winning the tag titles despite being over with the crowd without even having cut a real promo or been in any feuds besides the month-long MNM one. This is one of the dumbest things about Smackdown right now, along with Ashley and Chavo being the only talent moved across from Raw. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taker666 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2006 Just thought I add some interesting SmackDown Fact... The Current World Champion Booker T and Cruiserweight Champion Gregory Helms were the last title holders of their respective titles in WCW when they were bought out by the WWE in 2001. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrVenkman PhD 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2006 http://www.flickr.com/photos/timpang80/ Photos from the taping (among other wrestling photos). Check out Kidman in the Japanese get-up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pochorenella 0 Report post Posted July 27, 2006 Nice pics, DrVenkman. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
